{"id":3921,"date":"2015-12-15T21:45:31","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T05:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.howtopastel.com\/?p=3921"},"modified":"2018-06-25T11:36:32","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T18:36:32","slug":"pirkko-makela-haapalinna-painting-essence-of-everyday-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.howtopastel.com\/2015\/12\/pirkko-makela-haapalinna-painting-essence-of-everyday-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirkko M\u00e4kel\u00e4-Haapalinna – Painting The Essence Of Everyday Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been following Pirkko M\u00e4kel\u00e4-Haapalinna<\/a> ever since she burst onto the Pastel Society of America\u2019s Facebook stage. I featured her painting, \u201cMemories,\u201d last March in my monthly curation<\/a> of work seen that month, and so I was so pleased to hear it had won 3rd<\/sup> prize in the abstract\/non objective category of the 17th Pastel 100, the Pastel Journal<\/a>\u2019s annual competition.<\/p>\n

Needless to say, I was delighted when Pirkko M\u00e4kel\u00e4-Haapalinna accepted my invitation to guest blog. At this time of self-reflection at the end of the year, I thought Pirkko’s work was a perfect match for winter solstice and pondering the year past. Before I let her speak, here are a couple of pieces to whet your appetite. They are along the same symbolic and metaphorical theme as \u201cMemories.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\"Pirkko<\/a>
Pirkko Makel\u00e4-Haapalinna, High Expectations, 2015, pastel over ink under painting, 39 1\/2 x 12 5\/8 in (100 x 32 cm). “The format of the paper I had at hand was not ordinary, so I wanted to play with it. The theme of a high house was suitable for that. By the way, a psychotherapist bought the painting to her therapy room. She thought it phallic in a funny way.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Pirkko<\/a>
Pirkko Makel\u00e4-Haapalinna, “Shelter Me,” 2015, pastel on light grey PastelMat, 24 1\/2\u00a0x 13 3\/4 (62 x 35cm). “In this painting I wanted to express the winter and selected mainly light tones and the lightest of the lights.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Pirkko M\u00e4kel\u00e4-Haapalinna – a short bio<\/h4>\n

Here’s a wee background for\u00a0Pirkko M\u00e4kel\u00e4-Haapalinna. She\u00a0was born in Finnish Lapland in 1960. She received her\u00a0ceramist education in the Arts and Crafts School in Rovaniemi and also did\u00a0some fine arts studies at the Faculty of Art and Design in the University of Lapland. Since 2000 she has\u00a0been painting mainly with pastels. She’s had\u00a0several solo and group exhibitions in Finland and abroad, and her\u00a0paintings have received awards.\u00a0She is a member of the board of the Artists\u2019 Association of Lapland and a signature member of the Pastel Society of America (PSA).<\/p>\n

So Pirkko, the stage is yours!!<\/p>\n

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Pirkko M\u00e4kel\u00e4-Haapalinna – “Some lines about my working”<\/h4>\n

In my art, I search for the tangible surface between the inner world and the observable one. My intention is make more pronounced the meaning and inner essence of everyday life.<\/p>\n

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\"Pirkko<\/a>
Pirkko M\u00e4kel\u00e4-Haapalinna, “The Box,” 2015, metallic and other inks and pastel on Pastelmat, 23 5\/8 x 17 in (60 x 43 cm). “This painting was inspired by a photo I took at a dance show. The pastels are layered loosely over the inks after scratching the under painting with a stick.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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My background as an artist lies in ceramics. Maybe that is why choosing pastels felt natural and comfortable to me at the beginning of this millennium.<\/p>\n

Changing to pastels after ceramics took a couple of years. I had sold my ceramic studio in 1995 and had health problems with my neck and wrists. I tried some watercolours but they felt so powerless to me. Then I bought some pastels and added those to my aquarelles and that was it! With ceramics one has immediate touch of the material. With soft pastels you are closest to the paper with almost the same feeling. Doing ceramics I was dealing with powdered pigments and so the substance feeling was similar to pastels. To learn how to pastel, I went to the Internet and found, for example, the Pastel Journal<\/em> and Pastel Society of America (PSA). From the library I borrowed art books and tried to figure out the techniques of old masters. This took some years.<\/p>\n

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\"Pirkko<\/a>
Pirkko M\u00e4kel\u00e4-Haapalinna, \u201cMeditation on Emptying\u201d, 2012, Sennelier pastel on Wallis paper, 22 \u00bd x 24 3\/8 in (57 x 62 cm). This painting received the Art Times award at the 2012 PSA annual exhibition.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I have been painting with pastel about 15 years now. I am deeply enchanted with the intensity of the colours of soft pastels. Different papers and surfaces fascinate me, too. I love to feel their texture with my hands. I also want my touch to be seen in the result. That is why I use, for example, wooden sticks to scratch the paper even when the under painting ink is still wet.<\/p>\n

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\"Pirkko<\/a>
Pirkko M\u00e4kel\u00e4-Haapalinna, “On The Icy Lake,” 2015, Ink and pastel on grey Pastelmat, 12 5\/8 x 12 1\/4 in (32 x 54 cm). “This is the view in winter from my studio window. I started with an under painting of inks, even metallic copper, and worked with a wooden stick to give texture as an impression of the traces I saw on the ice. I worked with the flat edges of Sennelier and Terry Ludwig pastels, putting very gentle layers of pastel on top of the ink.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Pirkko<\/a>
Pirkko M\u00e4kel\u00e4-Haapalinna, “A Walk In The Woods,” 2015, Sennelier and Terry Ludwig over ink on Pastelmat, 16 1\/8 x 9 in (41 x 23 cm). \u201cThis is a small painting, according to my scale. It won an award in the 2015 PSA annual exhibition.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The lights and atmospheres that touch one\u2019s feelings are my subjects. The memories of beholding beauty, empowering experiences, and things that people have an overwhelming relationship with, inspire my works. I study the core of the identity through the key experiences in the surroundings and environment. I also get ignited when something gets a metaphorical new meaning and scale.<\/p>\n

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\"Pirkko<\/a>
Pirkko M\u00e4kel\u00e4-Haapalinna, \u201cPin Code Forgotten,\u201d 2015, Pastel and acrylic gold on medium grey Pastelmat, 8 5\/8 x 5 1\/2 in, (22 x 14.5 cm). \u201cI tapped the first layers of pastel with a wet sponge. This painting reflects the frustration of a long time lack of money due to forgetting the pin code after a time when there was no need to use it.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Thinking of my subject matters, my input angle is more narrative and experimental than analytical. I am drawn to the element of water. I lived next to the lake all my childhood and have now returned back to live here. Flowing water symbolizes time. I quiet my soul by watching ever-running water. Flowing water in my paintings is also part of my intention to move inwards. The unseen underwater realms and reflections of water are an endless treasury for inspiration.<\/p>\n

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\"Pirkko<\/a>
Pirkko M\u00e4kel\u00e4-Haapalinna, \u201cDeep Blue,\u201d 2014, Terry Ludwig pastels on medium blue sanded paper, 31 1\/2 x 23 5\/8 in (80 x 60 cm)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Pirkko<\/a>
Pirkko M\u00e4kel\u00e4-Haapalinna, \u201cFreezing,\u201d 2014, Sennelier pastel on Pastelmat, 22 7\/8 x 32 5\/8 in (58 x 83 cm). \u201cThis was painted on top of an old painting that I washed away.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I painted the water experience and water for a couple of years after I moved back to lakeside. But this year has been different because there came things in life that made a change. My father passed away at the beginning of summer and I was sitting beside his bed at that very moment. Because of his sickness I was unable to paint for a couple of months in the spring. But after his death I started to go more abstract. There was no other way that I could have expressed my inner thoughts and feelings. Those fragile plant-like uncertain lines came into my paintings, as I wanted to depict the fragility of life. Martha Nussbaum<\/a> puts it verbally: “Human condition of the ethical life is based on being more like a plant than like a jewel, something rather fragile, but whose very particular beauty is inseparable from its fragility.\u201d As an artist I am drawn to deep things of inner life. The situation of my life is reflected to my paintings.<\/p>\n

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\"Pirkko<\/a>
Pirkko M\u00e4kel\u00e4-Haapalinna, \u201cFacing the Greater Questions,\u201d pastel, 8 5\/8 x 9 7\/8 in (22 x 25 cm). \u201cThis is a small painting: I painted it after my father\u2019s death when I was in residency in Russia. I do not know the quality of this Russian paper. It was very soft and I had to struggle with it.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Painting is the natural way for me to explain myself and my surroundings and also the holistic understanding of life and worldview. But just depicting my subjects is not enough for me. I want to create an atmosphere for the spectator that raises questions and feelings. The starting point of my works lies in realism, but I am heading towards simplified abstraction. I am working on an area where the figurative and abstractive presentations meet.<\/p>\n

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\"Pirkko<\/a>
Pirkko M\u00e4kel\u00e4-Haapalinna, \u201cReflection,\u201d 2013, Sennelier and Terry Ludwig pastels over metallic ink (copper) washes on Wallis paper, 20 7\/8 x 29 7\/8 (53 x 76 cm).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Pirkko<\/a>
Pirkko M\u00e4kel\u00e4-Haapalinna, \u201cPrimavera,\u201d 2015, pastel over ink on light grey Pastelmat, 11 x 23 5\/8 in (28 x 60 cm). \u201cIn Finland we have a saying that \u2018swaying spring comes.\u2019 Here Spring is a young woman whose one shoulder is still covered by some snow but the other one has already some warmth and life on it. She enters swaying.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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My working process is a combination of planned and intuitive. I am quite lazy about doing any sketches but I do have a plan in my mind. Sometimes, however, the work starts to talk to me and propose a \u201cbetter\u201d approach. There are also moments of anxiety and struggle, but \u201cChance favours the prepared mind.\u201d<\/p>\n

I usually use inks for my under paintings as they combine well with pastel. And I am very happy that nowadays there are so many papers and boards that tolerate liquids. My colour scheme is quite subtle and I use a lot of neutrals. Maybe my northern environment and the long winter have something to do with it. I endeavour to enhance and refine my working process and its outcomes to reach my best \u2013 with all my capacity.<\/p>\n

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\"Pirkko<\/a>
Pirkko M\u00e4kel\u00e4-Haapalinna, “The Last Three,” 2015, pastel on Pastelmat, 9 7\/8 x 21 1\/4 in (25 x 54 cm). \u201cI was thinking of my father’s three last days before he passed away: there was a lot of love and a lot of grief as he had cancer. I sat beside his bed when he died. Seems weird but I feel that my grief has opened a door for a new kind of visual touch and expression.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I like to paint on Pastelmat, light grey and white. I used to work on tinted sanded papers, but I did not feel enough freedom with those. I apply ink sometimes as washed on or random flowing so that I then rub some of it away with a rag. Sometimes I also paint an under painting that is based on my plan. Then I use brushes, but I also use a wooden stick to scratch and make lines for the structure and texture. I am fond of very soft brands of pastels such as Sennelier, Terry Ludwig, and Mount Vision. The thickness of layers varies depending on the subject. Sometimes in the same painting I put very thin ones in one place and almost impasto in another.<\/p>\n

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\"Pirkko<\/a>
Pirkko M\u00e4kel\u00e4-Haapalinna, \u201cThe Last Page,\u201d 2015, pastel and pumice on paper, 18 1\/8 x 27 1\/8 in (46 x 69 cm). \u201cThis painting is a metaphor about the end of person\u2019s life as the last page is the end of the book. In this you can see the fragile lines that reach out of the picture to express hope. In the middle of the painting I used pumice-powder mixed in liquid casein to give a relief-like feeling.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I hope to paint daily, and I quite often succeed. If there is a longer break for some reason, it takes some time to get back to \u201cbusiness\u201d again. I think it is very important to have undisturbed painting periods such as preparing for an exhibition because work itself begins to guide and give direction to the next painting. I am most happy if I can start right after my morning coffee and even with my morning gown still on. This is possible as my studio is connected to our living room. When I start painting I lose my sense of time. But if I paint too late in the evening I find it difficult to get a sleep as my mind is still with the painting. Long walks in the woods help me both physically and mentally to get some distance.<\/p>\n

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\"Pirkko<\/a>
Pirkko M\u00e4kel\u00e4-Haapalinna, \u201cDeep Passage,\u201d 2015, Terry Ludwig and Sennelier pastels over ink on Pastelmat, 22 7\/8 x 33 1\/2 in (58 x 85 cm)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Thank you so much Pirkko for your expressive images and meaningful words.<\/p>\n

Pirkko M\u00e4kel\u00e4-Haapalinna’s prices range from US$500 to US$2000 (for about a 30 x 40 inch painting).\u00a0You can contact her directly via\u00a0e-mail: makelapirkko@hotmail.com or by phone: +358 50 491 4672. You can also contact her through her webpage.<\/a><\/p>\n

Please leave a comment. We’d love to know your response to M\u00e4kel\u00e4-Haapalinna’s\u00a0work and process!<\/p>\n

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Until next time,<\/p>\n

~ Gail<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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